assonance
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
French assonance, from Latin word assonare.
Noun [edit]
assonance (plural assonances)
- (prosody) The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry.
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Lifting its big glinting wing, it hit. |
